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Close Call
« on: June 11, 2023, 01:21:18 PM »
 Here is a new thread where you can put your "close call" you had on the road be it animal,human, general debri or what not.
 Saturday I was returning home from an 80 miler late afternoon ride on my Bandit 1200 going down a familiar road close to home lined with trees and swamps on both sides. It was around 6:30pm. Doing about 55mph when I spotted momma deer and her fawn hiding in some trees to my left. Too late to try and stop and the fawn bolted across the road hitting my left front fork. Thouhgt it was going to be a direct frontal hit.Held on to the bars and throttle tight and kept the bike going straight. Fawn was about the size of a medium to large dog. Destroyed a side marker and bent the bracket and put deer hair between my front tire and rim that does not pull out by hand. Nothing else seems bent.  I was a lucky boy !!
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2023, 01:47:58 PM »
Dang Eric! That was a close one...glad you came out OK. Going to have to air down that tire to remove the debris. Doubt the fawn would live through that encounter. If it did it will fear vehicles.

I once hit a groundhog with a vehicle that decided it was time to dart across the road. Right front tire hit it and there was a good amount of blood spray on the fender behind that tire. I was in college at the time.
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2023, 02:04:46 PM »
Funny thing was when I got home my wife was hardly worried about me but was heartbroken over the fawn.  ;D  I saw it in the middle of the road in my one rear view mirror (the right one spun around backwards) as I was cautiously motoring away for fear of damage. Since it was only a couple miles away I went back in the car later and did not see any sign of it so hopefully it was lucky to a certain extent also.
  All of my years driving which includes many many miles being a commercial driver also this is the first deer I ever have made contact with.

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Re: Close Call
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2023, 02:59:29 PM »
Glad you’re here to tell your story Eric, and nothing is roughed up too badly.
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2023, 05:27:36 PM »
 In the 70's I was sitting at a stoplight at an intersection near the factories that had just changed shifts, I heard a tire screeching, looked behind me and there was a 59 or so GM car that apparently only had one-wheel brakes. I pulled ahead and left as far as possible near the traffic stream. The junk pile stopped inches from me.
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2023, 05:41:40 PM »
Glad you ok, Eric!

I killed 4 pointer with Dorothy, hit fawn with Red and had to finish it and also hit at least one deer with my jeep. 

Back in Czech I had roe deer jump on my fork from a high bank.  First ride of he sesson, I barely stayed upright.   
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2023, 05:59:58 PM »
Animals and motor vehicles are speaking a foreign language to each other..  :(
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #7 on: June 11, 2023, 06:35:41 PM »
Wow, Eric!  Sounds like you did pretty good saving that one and you are lucky it was a little one.  That is not typical time of day to see 'em either.  I have been seeing lots of deer on my rides but no real close calls.  These deer are running through the city like crazy too.  I think I have seen more in the city limits this summer than I have out in the country.
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #8 on: June 11, 2023, 08:44:03 PM »
Wow, Eric, good save!
My ex-boss wasn't quite so lucky: he was blazing down a mountain canyon here on his Ninja when a deer jumped from an 8-foot-high bluff next to him, right onto the road in front of him, running 50+ MPH. The deer wiped him right off the bike, along with the cafe' fairing. He broke his left arm from hitting the deer, too. It hopped off into the woods.

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Re: Close Call
« Reply #9 on: June 11, 2023, 08:55:46 PM »
In 9/1973 I was riding in NE Utah, over the (then very narrow) 2-lane mountain pass eastbound toward Big Bear Lake, with my ex. It was about 7 PM, almost sunset when we came to the crest of the pass. I looked up and saw the air horns of a big rig 'rising' on the other side of the crest and then, all of a sudden, a "movie" flashed across my mind: I saw a light green Dodge Dart (1970s style) coming at me in my lane, trying to pass the semi into the sun, over that crest. About that time I could see the truck driver, who's eyes were WIDE open, as he pulled the [old] air horn chain to honk, and then I saw the roof of the green Dart rising over the same crest, in my lane. I whipped over to the right edge of my lane where a white line was on the edge of the blacktop, and I rode right on it: about 1 foot further to the right was a 150-foot or more dropoff, almost no shoulder to the road there. My ex started screaming at me and was beating me on my back (she hated heights) as the Dart passed by about 6"-8" from my left knee, she never even saw it. The truck was still on his horn as he passed me and I whipped back into the center of my lane. Until we split, she never believed me, why I rode that 4" wide white line on the edge of a cliff that day - probably still doesn't. She's like that...
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #10 on: June 11, 2023, 08:56:10 PM »
You would think it would be a natural instinct for animals to run AWAY from the perceived danger or threat. For some reason these animals (deer, groundhogs, squirrels) always seem to bolt right out into the road directly into the path of your vehicle.

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Re: Close Call
« Reply #11 on: June 11, 2023, 09:30:20 PM »
On Wednesday since my foot is still healing we were in my buddy's 19' Hyundai Sonata Sport on US 12 about 25 miles east of Lewiston Idaho. We were entering a sweeping downhill left turn when suddenly we see a Harley bagger coming out of the corner in our lane. He barely managed to drag the bike back into his lane a few inches in front of the four car pack he was passing all at once with the floorboards sparking. For a second there we thought that we were going to get a Harley right through the windshield.

It was the stupidest pass that I have seen in a long time. We also had two close encounters with deer which is more common than Harley baggers playing chicken with us. 8)
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #12 on: June 11, 2023, 10:35:48 PM »
 I was riding by myself in the country, saw a doe in the middle of a field and for some reason decided to honk the big horn on my Goldwing. Then that deer ran right at me. I was fast enough to get past it before it got to the road.
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #13 on: June 11, 2023, 11:04:10 PM »
i was riding around the island of Oahu just before the Anahulu bridge on the north shore in Haleiwa. i was riding with all the motorcycle salesmen from South Seas Honda when we came across a few girls on horses along side of the road. Just as i got along side of the riders something spooked the horses and the one closest to me bucked and kicked its hind legs up and just missed my head. i never saw it happen but the riders behind me told me how close it came.

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« Reply #14 on: June 12, 2023, 12:31:43 AM »
I was riding by myself in the country, saw a doe in the middle of a field and for some reason decided to honk the big horn on my Goldwing. Then that deer ran right at me. I was fast enough to get past it before it got to the road.

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« Reply #15 on: June 12, 2023, 02:11:53 AM »
I was riding along Rt 7 just north of Kent, CT when a doe sprung out of the bushes on my side of the road. I must have spooked it as I approached. That thing must have gone about 8 feet into the air as it came out of the brush, it bounded once in the middle of the road 10 feet in front of me and shot off into the brush on the opposite side. That was definitely a wake up call.

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Re: Close Call
« Reply #16 on: June 12, 2023, 03:20:10 AM »
MotoGP or MotoAmerica race in America had some deer cross the track with a couple bikes passing and it was super close.
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #17 on: June 12, 2023, 05:50:00 AM »
Wow, Eric!  Sounds like you did pretty good saving that one and you are lucky it was a little one.  That is not typical time of day to see 'em either.  I have been seeing lots of deer on my rides but no real close calls.  These deer are running through the city like crazy too.  I think I have seen more in the city limits this summer than I have out in the country.
This was a 'city slicker' Sean on a road you may ride. It was on Pitcher Street north of Mosel as your heading to the big turn by Markin Glen Park.
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #18 on: June 12, 2023, 06:07:49 AM »
On one of the relay rides 2010 or 2011 we were in eastern New Hampshire heading to the hand-off in Fryeburg Maine. A 1.75 (tall) liter water bottle fell off the next bike a few hundred feet in front of me while we were all leaned over in a long 80mph right hand turn. It did it's best but I somehow avoided it. It came up in conversation a few years later with some of the riders that were behind me, I guess I came closer than I thought.

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« Reply #19 on: June 12, 2023, 07:33:43 AM »
Last month I was going home from hunting club meeting.  At 11PM I stopped my sidecar at a stop sign and from the right side of the road came a  big dog - long haired rottweiler if you can imagine that :) - circled the rig to my left foot and gave me a piece of his mind. 

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Re: Close Call
« Reply #20 on: June 12, 2023, 09:08:31 AM »
I was sitting a couple years ago in a little town called Hickory Corners having a smoke and getting ready to tackle one of my favorite twisty roads. A pick-up truck went through the little 4 corner town with a load of scrap metal and I did notice a big old TV dish on top. Finished the smoke and went up to the twisty and came around one of the corners and there it was in the middle of the road - that damn reception dish -   :D  Missed it and  I did the good thing and pulled over and dragged it off to the side of the road.

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« Reply #21 on: June 12, 2023, 09:31:00 AM »
Nice save Eric! Looks we we all have had the animal encounters. One warm lazy afternoon my wife and I were on the 2000 SE Wing and came around a 90 degree corner on a narrow country road at about 15 MPH. No shoulder on the road and out from the bushes jumps an adult doe. She was trying to stop, but with the blacktop her back tracking hoofs just slid right into the side of us. I held it up right as she hit in the left mirror area. Mirror is on a hinge so that snapped back into place. My wife had deer hair on her jeans, but we did fine and so did the doe. That's one reason I don't ride much at night.
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #22 on: June 12, 2023, 11:10:47 AM »
...the fawn bolted across the road hitting my left front fork.

Good to hear you didnt go down, Eric. Cant believe the hair was captured in between the tire/wheel!

Deer are my biggest fear when riding around here, there are so many.  I've hit 3 with various vehicles, but none with bike...yet.

Not a close call, but this is what happened when I was t-boned by a buck about three years ago at 60mph...




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Re: Close Call
« Reply #23 on: June 12, 2023, 12:03:54 PM »
...the fawn bolted across the road hitting my left front fork.

Good to hear you didnt go down, Eric. Cant believe the hair was captured in between the tire/wheel!

Deer are my biggest fear when riding around here, there are so many.  I've hit 3 with various vehicles, but none with bike...yet.

Not a close call, but this is what happened when I was t-boned about three years ago at 60mph...



ouch  :o
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« Reply #24 on: June 12, 2023, 12:27:52 PM »
...the fawn bolted across the road hitting my left front fork.

Good to hear you didnt go down, Eric. Cant believe the hair was captured in between the tire/wheel!

Deer are my biggest fear when riding around here, there are so many.  I've hit 3 with various vehicles, but none with bike...yet.

Not a close call, but this is what happened when I was t-boned about three years ago at 60mph...



ouch  :o
Did a large buck ram you ?

Yes, it was a buck, but the whitetail deer around here aren't as large as other parts of the country [not enough food for all of them].
I'm sure he was hurt but just keep running and I didnt see what happened to him.
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #25 on: June 12, 2023, 12:30:34 PM »
I hope that was a vehicle and not a deer…

A Bison I believe rivals the weight of Moose. Saab and Volvo used to design their front windshields to withstand hitting a moose. Moose have long legs and huge torsos and they pretty much skip front end crash protection and if the front glass and opening don’t keep them out of the passenger compartment someone is going to likely die or be seriously injured. With a Chinese investment group owning and controlling Volvo now I don’t know how much their engineering has changed or if they still have the same safety at all costs mentality.
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #26 on: June 12, 2023, 05:05:34 PM »

Yeah, bison scare the crap outta me...in 1980 I took my wife to SD by way of WY and when we were buzzing toward Wind Cave Park we encountered a herd. There were some cars in the opposite lane trying to slow-pass them, which got some of them into my lane. Just as I was trying to sneak past one, it took offense at the "clunk" into 1st gear and whirled around at us: those things are fast! Good thing my SOHC4 was faster...
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #27 on: June 12, 2023, 06:44:06 PM »
On one of the relay rides 2010 or 2011 we were in eastern New Hampshire heading to the hand-off in Fryeburg Maine. A 1.75 (tall) liter water bottle fell off the next bike a few hundred feet in front of me while we were all leaned over in a long 80mph right hand turn. It did it's best but I somehow avoided it. It came up in conversation a few years later with some of the riders that were behind me, I guess I came closer than I thought.
This reminds me of one that fortunately made me laugh.  Was on the freeway on the way back from a long weekend trip with several friends.  It had gotten pretty hot and I had no where to ditch an excess amount of gear.  In an effort tp cool down I unzipped my leather down to about my belly.  Somehow the freeway speed wind lifted a folded map right out of my inner breast pocket.  The mapfluttered about in the turbulent air in front of me and then flew off.  Damn, I had gotten a lot of good use out it back in the days before google.  About a mile or 2 further on, I took an exit...just had to stop for a cool drink.  As I slowed on the exit ramp, I turned to look back to see if my friends had followed.  I see my bud, standing on his pegs, peering over the top of his windshield, with a full size map plastered perfectly over it.
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #28 on: June 12, 2023, 07:04:02 PM »
got hit by a wombat a few years ago ( for those of you unfamiliar with this native australian beast, imagine something about the size of a labrador with very short legs and no neck, solid lump of stupid, about 80-90lbs )
i was riding up into the hills where i used to live which has solid forest both sides of the road with the occasional house, just coming into my favourite corner and i saw a dark lump detach itself from the side of the road and dart towards me, for a lump of animal with teeny little legs they move fast ) i didn't have time to react before it hit me in the right ankle and pushed the Vmax a couple of feet across the road towards the downhill bank of the road. i stopped with the intention of going back and enquiring after its health ( or kicking its head in )  , it had already moved on, pitch dark so i couldnb't see anything.
it was about this time i realised that my right ankle felt quite damaged and i needed to get home, kept riding and when i got home and told Mrs Spotty she a) enquired after the wellbeing of the stupid marsupial, and b) said it was my own fault for doing over 50mph on a 30mph road
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #29 on: June 12, 2023, 07:31:31 PM »
On one of the relay rides 2010 or 2011 we were in eastern New Hampshire heading to the hand-off in Fryeburg Maine. A 1.75 (tall) liter water bottle fell off the next bike a few hundred feet in front of me while we were all leaned over in a long 80mph right hand turn. It did it's best but I somehow avoided it. It came up in conversation a few years later with some of the riders that were behind me, I guess I came closer than I thought.
This reminds me of one that fortunately made me laugh.  Was on the freeway on the way back from a long weekend trip with several friends.  It had gotten pretty hot and I had no where to ditch an excess amount of gear.  In an effort tp cool down I unzipped my leather down to about my belly.  Somehow the freeway speed wind lifted a folded map right out of my inner breast pocket.  The mapfluttered about in the turbulent air in front of me and then flew off.  Damn, I had gotten a lot of good use out it back in the days before google.  About a mile or 2 further on, I took an exit...just had to stop for a cool drink.  As I slowed on the exit ramp, I turned to look back to see if my friends had followed.  I see my bud, standing on his pegs, peering over the top of his windshield, with a full size map plastered perfectly over it.

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Re: Close Call
« Reply #30 on: June 12, 2023, 07:42:20 PM »
got hit by a wombat...

Holy cow, Spotty, glad you made it!
That's about like being hit with a Cessna....
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Re: Close Call
« Reply #31 on: June 13, 2023, 01:32:34 AM »
Your Wombats are bigger than our ground hogs (wood chucks) and about the size of the bigger Armadillos. Those suckers will leave a mark... permanent one if you survive it...
Our Javelina are a serious hazard at night, the mule deer are plentiful out near me but not as risky as the stupid Javelina. The coyotes don't pose much of a threat on the bike, nor are bobcats and foxes.
One night coming back home during the winter I passed a Javelina that had laid down on its paws in the middle of the other lane going the other way. It was pretty late as I had went to a late movie one weekend.  It just laid there and ignored me as I drove past. It was getting heat from the roadway. I doubt it had gotten hit by a vehicle as it had laid down upright with its legs beneath it on the pavement. It it had been hit it most likely would have been on its side or splayed out in some contortion. I notified the Sheriff office to check to ensure it wasn't dead. It blended in with the pavement pretty well having a lightly mottled grey dark - grey coat.

David- back in the desert SW!